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Professionalism within Nigerian librarianship depends heavily on investing in the employability and core competencies of practitioners. Career aspirations serve as vital motivators for professionals to acquire the necessary skills to advance their field. Key bodies, such as the National Library of Nigeria, the Nigerian Library Association, and national educational institutions, hold the responsibility for strengthening and sustaining local library and information science practices. Several measures are proposed to reinvigorate the sector, including internationalising library education, indigenising domestic librarianship, offering continuous professional training, and expanding internships. In addition, providing libraries within government institutions and broadening the admission criteria for professional registration are highlighted as vital steps. Overall, the profession faces an urgent need for rebirth, requiring librarians to actively pursue modern skills relevant to contemporary information services.
A well-trained and capable workforce of librarians ensures that public and academic institutions can effectively organise, preserve, and deliver information. Addressing the employability and skill levels of information professionals helps modernise essential knowledge services, supporting wider educational development and institutional governance across Nigeria.
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The ideals and hallmarks of every profession are enshrined in its body of knowledge, philosophies and principles guiding its operations, services and how its practitioners relate with the society. This paper discusses investing in employability of librarians as an impetus for enhancing the professionalism of librarians in Nigeria. It argues that career aspirations are essential motivators for professionals to develop the competence required to promote their profession. Itidentifies the likes of National Library of Nigeria, Nigerian Library Association, Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria, National Association of Library and Information Science Educators, African Regional Center for Information Science and Library and Information Science Schools as professional agents responsible for strengthening and sustaining LIS practices in Nigeria. It proposes internationalisation of LIS education, indigenisation of Nigerian Librarianship, continuous training of librarians, internships, provision of libraries in government institutions and admission of other cadres into LRCN as strategies for enhancing professionalism of librarians and further justifies the need for employability as efforts aimed at supporting professionals to develop knowledge and skills required to excel in both their work and life. It concludes that Librarianship in Nigeria is in dire and urgent need of rebirth and sustainability and recommends amongst others that librarians should be intuitively inspired to learn new skills and techniques relevant to the contemporary world of library and information services.
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DOI: 10.1177/02663821221141814
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